Re: is my RAID safe?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Dec 26 2004 - 13:07:25 EST


On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 14:30, M Benz wrote:
> Today I found this that at my /var/log/message (kernel 2.6.10):
>
> Dec 26 21:35:14 s1 kernel: ata5: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> Error }
> Dec 26 21:35:14 s1 kernel: ata5: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
> ata5 is md raid1 with ata6, both are sata drives connected to a promise
> SATA controller.

BadCRC is usually cable noise. The kernel will retry such an event
several times, then fall back to PIO and try that before it gives up.

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